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As buzz about Christine O’Donnell’s insurgent Senate candidacy in Delaware builds, scrutiny about her record is also intensifying, even from unlikely sources. |
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The socially conservative candidate backed by the Tea Party Express also used the opportunity to distance herself from a web video made by one of her supporters that implies Castle is carrying on a homosexual affair.

“Isn’t Mike Castle cheating on his wife with a man?” asks a voice off-screen on a video posted on Liberty.com.

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Yates Walker, a former spokesman for O’Donnell’s campaign, is now employed by Liberty.com and defended the video to POLITICO on Wednesday.

O’Donnell said she had nothing to do with the personal attack and hasn’t spoken to Walker in more than a month since he left her campaign.

“I think that that’s a very tacky approach. I never said that Mike Castle was gay. That is an insult to his wife . . . an insult to Mike Castle,” she said.

Castle is keeping his distance from O’Donnell, but told the Delaware News-Journal that he would not debate the former television commentator ahead of their Sept. 14 primary.

“I have no intention of talking to her,” he said, saying O’Donnell has used “the lowest tactics that Delaware has ever seen in a campaign.”

But a top Delaware Republican said the Castle campaign has decided to fight back on the air, planning to launch radio ads taking on O’Donnell. The source said no decision has yet been made on whether to go negative on television, but stressed, “they’re reviewing all options.”

“After yesterday, alleging the gay affair, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the campaign educate voters on what depths Christine O’Donnell will go to,” the Castle ally said.

Readers' Comments (25)

Why does the ruling class in Washington DC and New York City go ballistic when a regular person runs for high office? How come only wealthy elitists who are well-connected get elected? This is sufficient rationale to vote for O'Donnell.

This was a VERY conservative talk show host. He obviously doesn't want the democrat to win the election, that's why he doesn't want her to win the primary. The fact that he called her out on her bald faced lies and her incompetence when it comes to finances is hysterical. You go girl, sleaze and stupidity is the teabagger way.

Is there anything more "sad" than the unhappy people (such as poster "Stephen Blackpool") who imagine that we will solve our problems by electing a "regular person" to office? Guess what...we need to elect the smartest and most able people we can find, from both parties. Some might call O'Donnell "regular" but she seems more like just another ambitious and mediocre job-seeker who has trouble with basic math...and her self-serving, pious protestations when she's exposed don't add to her credibility.

Some say we have had the smartest and most able people running the country. Others would say we have had corrupt and self-serving people running the country into the ground. Perhaps both descriptions are applicable. At this point, I would settle for someone who isn't a thief.

I thought Sharron Angle and Rand Paul were about as crazy as the Tea Party could produce without recruiting people who were actively in the throes of clinical insanity, ranting at lamp posts about extraterrestrial invasions. But reading about this woman's public pronouncements (like her notorious MTV interview, in which she outlines her campaign to end masturbation) I'm convinced there is some strange and creepy stuff going on in that angry and confused mind.

Have to say as a Delawarean I am enjoying this immensely! Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party are essentially making a sure thing into a competitive race, Chris Coons the Dem must be rolling on the floor laughing. Mike Castle is an institution in Delaware, most of us view him as a Faux Moderate but relatively harmless. Christine O'Donnell is more from the "Your kidding! She's running again?" school of politics, the type Delawareans usually mock in private and hope will go away and not embarress herself any further. It's obvious all the money for this"campaign" is coming from outside the state, O'Donnell herself has not got a dime and lives off of campaign contributions ( is that leagal? ). As for the Tea Party, your goin' down and hard on this one! You should try to spend the Koch Brothers money more responsibly.

As conservative as I am, I wouldn't vote for that nutjob if you put a gun to my head. A vote for O'Donnell is a vote for Coons, period. She has about as much chance winning in Delaware as she would running for the House in San Francisco. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Tea Party Express cares far more about purging the less ideologically pure from the Republican Party than they do about gaining an actual governing majority that can stop the insane agenda of the incompetent clown who now occupies the Oval Office.

And someone who uses the term "teabagger" would know all about sleaze wouldn't they, hypocrite?

It amazes me that a movement which spent months mailing around teabags and festooning their caps and clothing with teabags objects to being called "teabaggers".

By way of apology for often making this mis-step though, I'm designing a logo for the Tea Party movement. It consists of the Washington monument flanked with two teabags standing watch over the Mouth of Liberty.

Great bilthering bachmann-creatures!!!! I just read a bit of O'Donnell's website. It's hilarious! Here's a great link to babbling about her laying "seige to Lord Castle" with her "band of merry supporters".

Read it for yourself. I really want this loon to represent the great state of Teabaggia in the Senate. It would be a sketch comedy writer's dream:

The NRC has declared war on O'Donnell. Castile on his best days is a weak-knee RINO. I wouldn't waste the gas to vote for this goofball. Let the dims have this one if O'Donnell is trashed out by the leftwing lemmings. RINOs are just as worthless as the demonrats. Flush them all.